sorting "problem"

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Gary Herron wrote:

>On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:48 am, Bror Johansson wrote:
>  
>
>>Assume having defined two lists. There will be a one-to-one relationship
>>between elements in the two lists.
>>
>>Is there a way to - when calling listA.sort() - have elements in listB
>>shuffled the same as those in listA? When calling listB.sort(), the listA
>>should be sorted alikewise.
>>    
>>
You can use the Numeric Python extensions for this if you've got a lot 
of elements:

 >>> from Numeric import *
 >>> a
array([8, 5, 1, 4, 3])
 >>> b
array([5, 2, 9, 8, 7])
 >>> indices = argsort(a)
 >>> indices
array([2, 4, 3, 1, 0])
 >>> c,d = take(a,indices),take(b,indices)
 >>> c
array([1, 3, 4, 5, 8])
 >>> d
array([9, 7, 8, 2, 5])

Enjoy,
Mike

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